Students' Extracurricular Research | Institute of English and American Studies

Students' extracurricular research, or "TDK" has a long and glorious past at the IEAS of the University of Debrecen. This is the highest level of undergraduate and graduate scholarship. Both the student and his/her supervisor work in their free time to help the student write a research paper well above the standards of ordinary seminar essays. These papers compete at the biannual national conference (OTDK). The best writings are awarded and are also often published in academic journals. Participation at the OTDK is a major advantage at PhD entrance examinations.

Organised in every second year, recently in 16 sections of the National Conference of Scientific Students’ Associations (OTDK) – with the support of the Ministry of Education and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as the moral and financial assistance of other relevant ministries and national bodies, is a scientific gathering during which the most outstanding scientific papers of the best university and college students are evaluated by boards of renowned Hungarian scientists and professors.

• otdk.hu
• UD IEAS OTDK Facebook group
• IEAS TDK-coordinators:
  • Dr. Péter Szűcs
  • Dr. Eszter Ureczky

37th OTDK

General call

The section of humanities of the national student researcher conference is going to be organized by the University of Szeged on 15-17 April 2025.

Call for the section of humanities

Website of the section of humanities (in Hungarian)

The section of teaching/learning methodology and knowledge technology is going to be organized by Károli Gáspár Reformed University on 14-16 April 2025.

Announcement for the section of teaching/learning methodology and knowledge technology (in Hungarian)

IEAS local round

The Institute of English and American Studies (UniDeb, Faculty of Humanities) is organizing a local round for the 37th OTDK (national student researcher conference).

Time: 29 November 2024, 8:30 - 15:00
Venue: UD Life Sciences Building, 3rd floor lecture room

Sections:

• Linguistics and Language teaching methodology
• British studies
• American studies

Program

Facebook-event

JUVENILIA
These volumes contain the papers of our students who have been awarded at the OTDK.

• JUVENILIA - I. (2006)
• JUVENILIA - II. (2008)
• JUVENILIA - III. (2010)
• JUVENILIA - IV. (2011)
• JUVENILIA - V. (2013)
• JUVENILIA - VI. (2015)
• JUVENILIA - VII. (2017)
• JUVENILIA - VIII. (2020)
• JUVENILIA - IX. (2021)